1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
Winning screenplays. First scenes readings from features, and television specs.
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LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: A HOLIDAY CAROL, by John Woodard (interview)
Modern day adaptation of Dickens “A Christmas Carol.” Evan Scrooge lives his life as a rich, greedy, bitter, closeted gay man, who despises the holidays. Until one Christmas Eve night, when his dead, ex-lover and business partner, Jake Marley, along with the three spirits of Christmas Present, Pa...
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Female Fest Best Scene: Lucky For You, by Heidi Kozak Haddad, Caroline Somers
LUCKY FOR YOU is a comedy about a people-pleasing woman named Ellie who wins big in the lottery, but instead of lavishing herself with the best money can buy, she hides her winnings and uses the money to secretly transform her slacker husband into the successful man she always dreamt he would bec...
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Winning FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: Black Sunday, by Katreana Bellew
A young fireman, and father of four, jumps to his death to escape a Bronx fire alongside four other firemen. Upon inspection of the fire, it becomes clear that both the building owners and the city of New York are at fault. The fireman's wife and the surviving, but chronically injured, men from t...
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Winning LA Festival 1st Scene: BABY, by Maggie Arias, Conor Hanney (interview)
“In a career that often offers no validation, an aspiring actress finds a side-hustle that does: sugar-babying. Based on absolutely nothing at all you can't prove anything back off.”
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Maggie: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Brad: Geoff MaysGet to know writer Maggi...
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1st Scene Reading: Gladiatrix Daughter of War, by Roxanne Gregory (interview)
Gladiatrix Daughter of War --- Barbarians+Spartacus=Gladiatrix. Acolyte priestess Aoife survives the fall of the Druidic stronghold but is enslaved. She kills a brothel master & is sold to a ludus, a school for gladiators, where she flourishes becoming Rome's deadly champion. As Amazonia Nyx Deat...
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1st Scene Reading: UNDYING LOVE, by Bill Liggins
All hell breaks loose when a flaky podcaster involves herself in a race between the US government and a powerful secret society to find an authentic immortal.
http://billliggins.com/
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Anchor/Sheriff: Steve Rizzo
Rachel/Tamara: Val Cole
Wounded Boater 1/Agent ... -
1st Scene Reading: Christmas Pizza, by Andy Heidel, Chloe Sehr
Noelle is a struggling NYC singer and musician that returns to her hometown of Carillon after her mother dies in a freak accident during the annual Thanksgiving Leftovers Casserole Contest. Upon her return, she discovers that the building she is supposed to inherit is in foreclosure and her ex-gi...
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1st Scene Reading: A Waterless Place, by Leiter Daniellson
After witnessing an Alien spacecraft crash in the mountains two brothers rush to the scene and gather what they can. A shadowy figure is sent to hunt the brothers down and eliminate them before their Father rescues them.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Lucius/Dael: Geoff Mays
Orion: Steve Rizzo... -
1st Scene Reading: A DIFFERENT WORLD, by Michael Mendershausen & Lillian Carrier
Rebecca is waiting at an airport, while her parents baby her. Rebecca has autism and is seemingly traveling for the first time by herself. She gets on the plane with her service dog, Luke. She meets Jonathan, who already starts to help her on the plane.
While he gets off, he loses Rebecca but r...
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DRAMA Festival 1st Scene: CALF ROPE, by Jake Stetler, Bradley Hawkins
When in 1966 a nine-year-old boy from suburban Pennsylvania asks his grandad from Oklahoma if he was ever “a real cowboy,” the retired cattle auctioneer is forced to take stock of his blessings and confront his unrealized dreams.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Kyana Teresa
Mac: Geoff Mays
Brandon: St... -
CRIME/MYSTERY Fest 1st Scene: American Breakdown, by Gary Porpora (interview)
Logline: At the mercy of an accelerating dementia, Jonas Flemming, aka, America's Coroner--the state’s lead witness in yet another high profile murder trial--melts down on the witness stand, setting a psychopath free.
When the L.A. detective on the case reopens his investigation, Jonas becomes t...
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LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: NEPHEWS, by Andrew Child
Aaron was an actor until he started dating the much more successful, older actor, Richard Hanes. When Richard develops an interest in Aaron's younger brother, Aaron grapples with returning to his life before notoriety as a kept man.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Aaron: Geoff Mays
Joe: Steve R... -
1st Scene Script Read: THE INFINIPLEX, by Brian Murphy
An obsessed grad student trying to bring his brother back from the dead, finds his task complicated by two evil movie ushers from his nightmares and the one and only girl of his dreams.
Narrator: Val Cole
Dexter/Asinine Professor: Shawn Devlin
Frisbane/Terry: Steve Rizzo
Will: Andy Camp
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TV Festival 1st Scene: In All But Blood, A. S. Templeton (interview)
On a colonized planet threatened by a solar storm, an Eagle Scout exploring the alien wilderness has a fateful encounter with someone thought long dead.
Narrator: Julie Shppard
Clark: Shawn Devlin
Jacob: Steve Rizzo
Tanner: Sean BallantyneGet to know the screenwriter:
1. What is your scre...
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LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: HERMANA, by Jordan Iver Broberg
Eden, a closeted Mormon, is called to serve a mission in South America, but when her best friend kisses her the night before she leaves, everything she has ever known to be true is now in question.
Narrator: Val Cole
God: Shawn Devlin
Eden: Julie Sheppard
Eric: Steve Rizzohttps://instagram...
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HORROR 1st Scene: AT DEATH'S DOOR, by Matthew Catanzano (interview)
When his father dies, a small-time thief returns home and learns the family business—running a funeral home—includes guarding a Gateway to Hell. He’s not a great thief or a great son, but he’ll have to step up or there’ll be Hell to pay…literally, like, the apocalypse.
Narrator: Val Cole
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COMEDY Festival 1st Scene: THIS GUY'S NUTS,, by Max Lehman
In a small New England college town, a PhD biology candidate, Chester, is studying genetic code to domesticate wildlife by starting with the creature he fears most, the squirrel. Though he is a man of science, Chester can't be convinced otherwise that squirrels are after a particular pair of nuts...
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COMEDY Festival 1st Scene: JUST THE SIX OF US, by Jimmy Sanders (interview)
Four sisters, suddenly reunited, try to make a better future for themselves by reconnecting to their past.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Connie: Julie Sheppard
Stage Director: Shawn Devlinhttp://www.thelostepisodes.com/
https://instagram.com/the_lost_episodesGet to know the writer:
1....
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HORROR Festival 1st Scene: PWNED, by Diane Johnson
A second rate musician pays the price for accepting a pawn shop guitar for free.
Narrator: Val Cole
Greg: Geoff Mays
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CRIME/MYSTERY Fest: Privileged Deceit, by Annette C. & Warren R Hull (interview)
By using a series of relationships with corrupt politicians, crooked cops, notorious gangsters and powerful businessmen, Gaynell Moretta and Archie MacDonald rise to the pinnacle of Southern California’s socially elite society. Ironically the relationships they use to satisfy their worldly lusts ...
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: KISS OF DARKNESS, by Michael McClung (interview)
In 1960, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has recently been evacuated by Belgian forces in the face of violent uprisings, leaving new Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba's, 35, shaky government to ward off both America and Russia, who contend for the rich natural resources of uranium, diamonds, co...
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LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: DOG PARK, by Harold Taw (interview)
In the comedy-drama DOG PARK, the deliberate poisoning of a dog forces three lonely people's lives to collide.
Narrator: Val Cole
Margaret: Hannah Ehman
Carrie: Kyana TeresaGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
In DOG PARK, the deliberate poisoning of a dog force...
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COMEDY Festival Scene: Good Pussy: The Anatomy of a Crazy Cat Lady, by Bree Wyrd
When a suicidal comedian is involuntarily hospitalized by her family, her ride-or-die drag queen BFF and her unorthodox psychiatrist devise a plan to break her out, recover her eight cats, and help her rediscover her joy in life.
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Barbara: Kyana Teresa
Mackenzie... -
The Paranormal Prankster: Casefile 001 - Bigfoot. Sean Whitley (interview)
When a notorious Internet troll appears on a live streaming video podcast to debate the existence of Sasquatch with Bigfoot believers, the fur flies when he's challenged by an ape-suited prankster claiming to be the legendary beast!
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Paranormal Prankster: Geoff MaysGet ...